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| NAGATAKI Shoji |  |
| School of Global Studies | |
| Professor |
Last Updated :2024/02/02
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NAGATAKI Shoji
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shojinagataki
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Research Interests
- cognitive phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of embodiment, tacit knowledge, cognitive philosophy
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Published Papers
- 15, 18, 2018, refereed, Joint Work
- 41, 60, 2020, refereed, Single Work
- 第31巻, 第4号, 171, 182, 2020, refereed, Single Work
- Can Morality Be Ascribed to Robot?
Shoji Nagataki et al.
Interaccion 2019: Proceedings of the XX International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, ACM Digital Library, Interaccion'19:Proceedings of the XX International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, 1, 4, 2019, refereed, Joint Work, The purpose of this paper is to clarify part of the ethical basis necessary for a machine like a humanoid robot to be a member of a human society. In order to do so, we formulate three conditions for moral agency on which membership is based: cognitive-behavioral, ontological, and normative. For the purpose of showing the relevance of these conditions, we conducted an experiment which involved human-robot interactions and moral judgement tasks. This conceptual exploration and empirical research suggests that bodily coordination can generate the demand for a certain moral commitment on the part of artificial beings. - Scientific Technology and Transformation of Humanity
Shoji Nagataki et al.
Annual Review of the Phenomenoligical Association of Japan, The Phenomenoligical Association of Japan, 34, 37, 45, 2018, refereed, Joint Work - Can Robots be Moral Agents, Have Personality?
958, 960, 2018, refereed, Joint Work - On The Robot As A Moral Agent
Shoji Nagataki et al.
Interaccion 2018 Proceedings of the XIX International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, ACM DL, 1, 4, 2018, refereed, Joint Work - Vulnerability under the gaze of robots: relations among humans and robots
Shoji Nagataki and Nicola Liberati
AI & Society, 1, 10, 2018, refereed, Joint Work - Robot as Moral Agent: A Philosophical and Empirical Approach
Shoji Nagataki et al.
Proceedings of the 39th annual meeting of the cognitive science society (CogSci2017), 3795, 3975, 2017, refereed, Joint Work - Touching the World as It Is
Humana.Mente vol.16, 97, 116, 2016, refereed, Single Work - 56, 57, 2015, refereed, Joint Work
- The AR glasses' "non-neutrality": their knock-on effects on the subject and on the giveness of the object
Shoji Nagataki and Nicola Liberati
Springer, vol. 7, 125, 137, 2015, refereed, Joint Work - 2015
- 38, 43, 2015, refereed, Joint Work
- 49, 53, 2014, refereed, Joint Work
- Shoji, NAGATAKI, Mindaugas, BREDIS
Proceendings of the 15th annual international conference of the SPM, 9, 14, 2014, refereed, Joint Work - 2012
- 2012
- 99, 104, 2012, refereed, Joint Work
- 2010
- 2008
- Phenomenology and the third generation of cognitive science: towards a cognitive phenomenology of the body
Shoji, NAGATAKI
vol. 30, 3, 219, 232, 2007, refereed, Joint Work - 113, 138, 2005, refereed, Single Work
- 99, 111, 2002, refereed, Single Work
- 31, 48, 2001, refereed, Single Work
- 1999
- 1999
- 1999
- 1999
- 1999
- 1999
- 29, 46, 1998, refereed, Single Work
- 1997
- 1997
- 279, 289, 1995, refereed, Single Work
- 47, 52, 1994, refereed, Single Work
- 135, 150, 1994, refereed, Single Work
Books etc
- 2022, 4130152033
- 2022, 413015186X
- 2021, 978-4-13-011149-2
- Postphenomenology and Media
Shoji Nagataki et al.
Body, Technology, and Humanity, Lexington Books, 2017, 978-1-4985-5014-7 - 2015
- 2014
- 2013
- 2012
- 2012
- 2010
- 2008
- 2008
- 2006
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- 1999
Conference Activities & Talks
- 2022, Single Work, Not refereed
- 2022, Joint Work, refereed
- 2022, Single Work, refereed
- 2022, Single Work, Not refereed
- 2022, Joint Work, refereed
- 1994, Single Work, refereed
- 2020, Single Work, Not refereed
- Virtual Reality, Vulnerability, and Morality
Shoji, NAGATAKI
PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN-TECHNOLOGY RELATIONS 2020, 2020, Single Work, refereed, Panelist, DesignLab of the University of, Twente, omline - On the Digital Revolution: from a (Post)Phenomenological Viewpoint
Shoji, Nagataki
SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 2020, Single Work, refereed, Panelist, SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE, Omline - 2020, Joint Work
- Facial Expression and Bodily Behavior as Clues to Understanding Other Dispositional Characteristics
Shoji, NAGATAKI
SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 2019, Single Work, refereed, Panelist, SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE, New Orleans - Folk Psychology, Social Relationship, and Humanity
Shoji Nagataki
Society for Phenomenology and Media 22th Annual International Conference, 2020, Single Work, refereed, Society for Phenomenology and Media, Tallin, What is necessary for a robot to have humanity, to become something more than mere Cartesian res extensa? The notion of humanity is vague, multifaceted, and even sometimes incoherent. However, two points seem to deserve special attention: human vulnerability in a psychological sense and our mundane ability of mind-reading others. Our ability of mind-reading is inextricably linked to psychological vulnerability. Though crucial to the social relationship, this ability can be exploited by others in unfavorable ways. We have large whites of the eyes compared with those of other animals, and for that reason the direction of our eyes is easily divulged. This fact can be function as both a weakness and a strength for our lives, for it can help us to read the opponent’s intention and act accordingly in favor or disfavor of them. Shameful blushing is another element of psychological vulnerability, because it can tell us that you might be cheating or doing something wrong. This feature, however, can also be effective in gaining sympathy and trust from others. In this presentation, I will focus on our mundane “folk psychological” ability to work out what others are feeling and thinking. By relating experimental data with philosophical theories and descriptions, we try to shed new light on how mind is mediated by facial expression and bodily behavior. By doing so, it is expected that one of the mechanisms for robots to acquire humanity will be clarified. - The Self as What Appears on the Surface: Emotion and Expression
Shoji Nagataki
Society for Phenomenology and Media 21th Annual International Conference, 2019, Single Work, refereed, Society for Phenomenology and Media, Puebla, Emotion is often conceived as opposed to reason. In the atmosphere of modern male-centered ideology, thinkers sometimes hold that men are inherently rational while women are emotional. Historically, philosophers' interests in emotion have appeared only after those in reason. It has been argued that emotions are closely related to subjective body sensations, observable expressions and behavior, and various changes in physical condition, whereas the work of reason is generally unrelated to embodiment. Even our everyday intuition tells that emotions, supposedly one of typical mental states, are believed to be mediated in facial expressions and behavior to a considerable extent. So, it is told that emotion should have molded our senses of moral, law, and politics, as well. There seems to be a discordance between such a conception and the Cartesian view that the mind is hidden inside (body) and cannot be seen directly. The problem is to what extent it is possible to reduce emotions to facial expressions, bodily behavior, and the physical state of the body. Can emotions be given comprehensive explanation by reductionism? In this presentation, I try to give some answer to the above questions by explicating the nature of emotion in some detail as well as examining several approaches to emotion. - 2019, Joint Work, Not refereed
- From Facial Expression and Bodily Behavior to Mind: On Reliability of First –person Report
Shoji Nagataki
2019, Joint Work, refereed, 4E Gognition Group, Porto - A robotic and philosophical study on the nature of agency: An interdisciplinary approach
Shoji Nagataki
4th Avant Conference: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2019, Joint Work, 4E Gognition Group, Porto - Can Morality Be Ascribed to Robot?
Shoji Nagataki
INTERACCION 2019, 2019, Joint Work, refereed, International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, The purpose of this paper is to clarify part of the ethical basis necessary for a machine like a humanoid robot to be a member of a human society. In order to do so, we formulate three conditions for moral agency on which membership is based: cognitive-behavioral, ontological, and normative. For the purpose of showing the relevance of these conditions, we conducted an experiment which involved human-robot interactions and moral judgement tasks. This conceptual exploration and empirical research suggests that bodily coordination can generate the demand for a certain moral commitment on the part of artificial beings. - 2018, Single Work, Not refereed
- 2018, Single Work, refereed
- On The Robot As A Moral Agent
Shoji Nagataki
INTERACCION 2018, 2018, Joint Work, refereed, International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Palma de Mallorca - Vulnerability, Risk, and Humanity
Shoji Nagataki
SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 2018, Single Work, refereed, SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE, Sydney - Reducing Risks
Nagataki, S.
SPM 20th International Conference in Akureiri, 2018, Single Work, refereed, Panel, Society for Phenomenology and Media, Akureiri, Human ancestors have survived a narrow pathway of evolution. Smaller residence brought about by a climate change and drastically reduced tropical rainforest might have kicked them out of their homelands. Or they might have had “the misfortune to be living at the margins of the forest"(Lieberman, 2013, 48) and have been influenced by the climate change directly. Our ancestors were vulnerable in their origin. The vulnerability specific of humans has profoundly shaped their history, which goes back to the ages when they started their lives in Savanna. It is also a history of striving for reducing dangers in nature and overcoming their vulnerability. Humans used to be so vulnerable and are often still so (Kruuk, 2002, 53). For example, “no person alive could possibly match” his relative, “a chimp, for speed, power, and agility” (Lieberman, 31). They had to protect themselves from their predators before they could be big game hunters. Compared with tropical rainforests, Savannas are more “open and risky habitats” (Lieberman, 55), so they had to blush up their ability to cooperate with each other. According to Hart and Sussman, “predation pressure was one of the major catalysts for the evolution of humankind” (Hart and Sussman, 2005, 247). Put simply, we have evolved while having been hunted. The ability to cooperate with each other made it possible for our ancestors to hunt big game animals. However, it was still no easy task for them to obtain food even in the life of hunting and gathering; being cooperative and sharing games could alleviate the risk of starvation. In this presentation, I will consider the history of humans in terms of struggles for overcoming vulnerability, and situate contemporary technologies advanced through agricultural, scientific and industrial revolutions on the background of those struggles. Then, we analyze what possible products of robotics mean to us from a viewpoint of vulnerability, with a special attention to the problem of robot-human coexistence. - Scientific Technology and Transformation of Humanity: From a (Post)phenomenological Viewpoint
Nagataki, S.
2017, Joint Work, refereed, Chair, Panel, Humans have changed their environmental world in various ways for comfort and convenience with a wide range of technology. They have designed different types of dwelling in order to make a living space comfortable. Most notably, the advancement of science and technology after the scientific and industrial revolutions has been transforming our living world drastically. Highly advanced digital technology has produced a virtual and an augmented reality, thus changing a phenomenological space in the traditional meaning. More light would be shed on these changes with the aid of the phenomenological insight that the world given to us is mediated by the body--- a medium through which we recognize, work on, and physically transform the world. Technology is also bringing transformation in the way in which our body functions. It has been developing robots and AI which can simulate and overwhelm the intelligence and athletic ability of humans. In the near future, humans with a technologically enhanced body, or super humans, might appear in our society. Such beings might become a newcomer to our society. In this workshop, four speakers will focus on the environmental world and human condition being reshaped by science and technology, and raise issues on what these ongoing changes mean to us. - Similarity and Alterity: How Machines Become Moral Agents
Nagataki, S.
4S 2017 in Boston, 2017, Single Work, refereed, Panelist, Society for Social Studies of Science, Boston, In the near future, robotics and AI would be able to create beings with a human-like appearance and, in a sense, with greater-than-human intelligence. They would be newcomers to our society. When machines become more than industrial products, what is necessary for them to be accepted and initiated into the human society, in other words, to coexist with human beings? My answer is that in order to do so, they must be moral agents which have a kind of humanity. To be a moral agent is, firstly, to bear its own responsibility which others cannot take for it. I will argue that such an irreplaceability consists in its having an inner world --- one which others cannot directly experience, just as pleasure and pain. It is thought that humanity is essentially based on having a common human body. By virtue of our embodiment, human beings are exposed to physical illness, injury, disability, and death. In sum, our body has its own vulnerability. According to Nussbaum, our dignity could not be possessed by a being who was not mortal and vulnerable. A moral agent should have this kind of dignity. Thus, secondly, to be a moral agent is to be a vulnerable one, I suppose. Due to the very fact of having a common and vulnerable body, we are aware that we should live in the intersubjective and ethical world based on empathy. In this presentation, I will discuss the morality of those new comers through conceptions of an irreplaceability and a vulnerability. - Robot As Moral Agent: A Philosophical and Empirical Approach
Nagataki, S. et al.
CogSci 2017 in LONDON, 2017, Joint Work, refereed, Cognitive Science Society, LONDON, It is necessary to implement similar bodily and psychological abilities in someone, or something to be accepted as a moral agent, or another person in a human society. Then the irreplaceability, which we mentioned, can be viewed along another dimension; it is related to the problem of whether a first-person perspective can be attributed to the other in question. This kind of perspective involves a private realm to which other people cannot have direct access. This is where our personality and irreplaceability, including that of moral responsibility, lie in. In fact, such an otherness is familiar. It is a common experience that we find similarities as well as differences between us. Suppose that you and I agree to have lunch together, but you force me to eat something I have never expected in a restaurant. In that situation, I would feel I’ve lost my initiative. This happens in our everyday life. We have a sense of otherness in unexpected transfers of initiative. In order to make explicit such an aspect of our daily experience, we design an experiment of Bodily Coordinated Motion task (BCM task). A bodily coordination is a social art and one of the key elements which enables us to have a social relationship with others (cf., William H. McNeill (1997) Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History, Harvard University Press). When coordinating ourselves well and getting along with each other, we feel an affinity between us, while when failing in it, a sense of otherness or impenetrability is imposed upon us. The purpose of this presentation is to explicate a condition in which humans attribute the status of moral agency to a robot. For that purpose, we are planning to set up an experiment of interaction between a robot and a human. Before that, we develop some hypotheses about the anticipated results of the experiment. - 2017, Single Work, Not refereed
- Embodiment and Sympathy: Machine's Vulnerability
Nagataki, S.
Society for Phenomenology and Media 19th Annual International Conference, 2017, Single Work, refereed, Society for Phenomenology and Media, Belgium, Brussels, In the near future, cyborg technology would make it possible to enhance abilities of the human body at unprecedented level. Robotics and AI would be able to create beings with a human-like appearance and, in a sense, with greater-than-human intelligence. They would be newcomers to our society, whatever use they are intended for. How should we engage with them? When humanoids become more than industrial products, what is necessary for them to be accepted and initiated into the human society? My thesis is that, for that purpose, it is crucial to implement on them, in one way or another, some sort of vulnerability or weakness which is comparable to that of humans. In this presentation, I will 1. analyse the conception of human vulnerability from a philosophical and sociological viewpoint, 2. make explicit what is necessary for implementing that property, 3. reframe the conception of vulnerability, and 4. discuss possible changes in the meaning of humanity - 2016, Single Work, refereed
- 2016, Single Work, refereed
- 2015, Joint Work, Not refereed
- 2014, Joint Work, refereed
- 2015, Single Work
- Between Man and Machine: Where is Humanity Going?
SPM 17th Annual Internationa Conference, 2015, Single Work, Not refereed, Society for Phenomenology and Media - On the archaeology of the body
SPM 16th Annual International Conference, 2014, Single Work, refereed, Society for Phenomenology and Media - CogSci 2013, 2013, Joint Work, refereed, Cognitive Science Society
- SPM 15th Annual International Conference, 2013, Single Work, refereed, panel, Society for Phenomenology and Media, Puebla
- Shoji Nagataki
4S 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, 2012, Single Work, refereed, Society for Social Studies of Science - On What Mediates Our Knowledge of the External World: Body, Technology, and Affordance
SPM 13th Annual International Conference, 2011, Single Work, refereed, Panel, Society for Phenomenology and Media, Deutschland, Freiburg und Furtwangen - Joint Attention Realized in a Robot with Intentional Agency
Shoji Nagataki
ECCS 2010, 2010, Joint Work, refereed, European Conference on Complex Systems, Lisboa - Describing Mental States and Bodily Behaviors
Shoji Nagataki
ECCS 2010, 2010, Joint Work, refereed, European Conference on Complex Systems, Lisboa - Science of Mind and Post-Phenomenology of Bodily Behaviors
Shoji Nagataki
4S/STS 2010, 2010, Single Work, refereed, Society for Social Studies of Science, Japan, Tokyo - Refining Folk Psychology
Shoji Nagataki
CFCUL International Colloquium, 2012, Single Work, refereed, Centro de Filosofia das Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, Lisbon - 2012
- Mediated Minds
Shoji Nagataki
SPM 14th Annual International Conference, 2012, Single Work, refereed, Society for Phenomenology and Media, USA, San Diego - 2014, Single Work, Not refereed
- 2012, Single Work, Not refereed
- 2010, Single Work
- 2010, Single Work
- 2009, Single Work
- 2007, Single Work
- 2010
- 2006
- 2005
- 2003
- 2008
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- Modern Times, 202211, Not refereed
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- 3323, 201710, Not refereed
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), A robotic study on the origin and future of morality: An interdisciplinary approach, 2019, 2019, 2023, 19H00524 - 2019, 2017, 2021
- 2019, 2018, 2020, 18H00601
- 2019, 2018, 2019, 18H04206
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